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certificate in their hands did not come within the meaning of the act, that it was impossible for a man to record a survey that was not in his possession, or to conform to the regulations of an act not in being, that the law did not require impossibilities, that the statute of H. 8, did not affect them, because it only related to lands in the right of an ancestor of which a man is not possessed, but that the plaintiff was in possession by the act of the legisla ture for transferring the uses of land without solemn livery of seizen, that the deed by this act was sufficient to transfer the possession without an actual entry, that suppose the statute of H. 8, was extended, they were not barred because within the limitation, having had an actual entry within 60 years, that the act, whatever had been suggested, was not extended until extended by the law of the Legislature here, who were undoubtedly convinced that the act of H. 8, was not extended, or they would have extended it, and that the extension was within 20 or 30 years, and consequently that they could not be barred, being within time, had they not otherwise been in possession by the act for estab lishing solemn livery of seizen, but as they were, the objection fell to the ground, that by the same authority he could produce an instance that declared a right might sleep, but could never die, that it might be trodden down, but never trodden under foot, and read the instance, and insisted upon the injustice of a man's right being overthrown upon account of another's having entered thereon, and enjoying the benefit thereof, and expatiating upon the subject he submitted to the jury. Then Moland rose, and as the subject was greatly exhausted no fresh matter could well be urged, and therefore it only remained for him to improve and inculcate the doctrine his contemporary had been laboring to establish, and this he seemed principally to confine himself unto, and as so much had been said before he did not dwell long upon the subject, but submitted to the jury. Then the judge summed up the matters of law and of fact, submitting the latter to the jury, who he said were judges thereof, and I was under expectation that they would find for the defendants, but the rea. sons I omit.

August 16th.-Hear that the jury have found for the defend

ants.

We, the subscribers, do promise to pay the Rev. John Brainard, the present missionary of the said Society amongst the Indians at Cranberry, or to his order, the sums respectively affixed to our names, for the purchase of the said lands, to be vested in

the said Society, for the uses and purposes aforesaid, provided there be obtained by subscription or otherwise within two years from the date hereof, a sum amounting to the consideration money to be paid for the said land.

New York, Dec. the 23d, 1756.

N. B. The consideration money is £880 proc.

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John Schuyler sells cedar tops to the bakers cut into cord wood for 18s. per cord, and has sent for a great deal in New York, gives 18d. for cutting, and the cutter finds his own diet.

By agreement, public meetings in future to be held at the Baptist meeting house.

Household expenses for the year 1758, commencing the 1st day of January and ending the last day of December succeeding :taken to myself for the above purpose, out of the shop at home and below, (account of foreign imports only,) viz.

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270 1-8 1-16 of various kinds of linen, cost,

5 lbs. tea, 8s.

Woolens, dye stuffs, spicery, and dry goods,

To which add for wets

52 gallons of rum, 4s.

30 do. molasses, 3s 150 lbs. sugar, 78.

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10 gallons wine, 8s.

2 barrels cider,

Whole expense in foreign imports,

Equal to £7 3s. 8 to each individual in my family.

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But perhaps the populace in general may not live at a proporionate expense with my family. I'll only suppose their foreign consumption at £4 to one individual, as the county consisted of 1100 in 1746, since which it has increased, then the consumption of foreign produce and manufactures in this county upon that estimate and supposition will stand at £1,400 annually, near onehalf of which will be linens, and it may be observed I have not included my salt articles in the above estimate. (County Dr.)

Annual consumption of the county,

To which add for public taxes,

Presbyterian minister,

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The stock article is by estimation about
There is at least 10 boats belonging to the county
which carry oysters, and admit they make three
trips fall and three trips spring, each, and carry
100 bushels each trip, that makes 6000 bushels,
which at 2s. per bushel makes
Fourteen pilots, at £30 per annum,
Mitten article for the present year,

Cedar posts,

White cedar lumber,

Odd boards,

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Flax seed, neats' tongues, beeswax, and myrtle do.

Tar,

Coals,

£4,400

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Which leaves £420 to be paid by some uncertain fund, or left as a debt. February 2d, 1762.-Weighed my old sow, she weighed 2204

lbs., and my stunted pig, about six months old, weighed 894. She almost all my crop of corn!

eat up

[After a long calculation of what it cost him to feed and fatten 8 hogs he comes to the following conclusion.]

So that the value of the hogs was totally sunk by feeding them, particularly when corn is worth 3s. per bushel, and pork 30s. per 100 lbs. The common governing rate when they sell hogs here alive is 2s. per pound poor, and when well filled with swill will weigh prodigiously.

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